Yoko Yagi
Yoko Yagi
Inspired by the work of the world-renowned glass artist Klaus Moje of Australia, Yoko Yagi has pursued a career in glassmaking since the day she first saw a photo of Moje's work on the cover of a magazine. She took a workshop with Moje in 1998, and later served as his interpreter and assistant in Japan. Following in her mentor's path, she has devoted herself since then to exploring techniques of glass fusing. Obsessed with creating patterns, she started working with murrine (mosaic canes), a Venetian glass technique perfected in Murano, Italy. Working with sheets of Bullseye glass, Ms. Yagi creates finely crafted, three-dimensional works inspired by the two-dimensional patterns seen in traditional textiles, knits, baskets and kumihimo (the Japanese craft of making braided cords). Fascinated by traditional patterns since she was a child, Ms. Yagi enjoys finding both uniqueness and universal expression at the same time in her murrine creations. She currently lectures at Kinki University Osaka, Japan.
